The worst problem is that a LLM could not only copy the exact code it was trained on but possibly even their comments!
There is one thing arguing that the code is a one to one copy but when the comments are even the same isn’t it quite clear it’s a copy?
It literally did copy significant portions of docstring comments, verbatim.
The human driver of the project has a comment that is reporting that the project has no structural overlap as analyzed by a plagarism analysis tool. Were comments excluded from that analysis? Is your comment here based on the data in the repo?
> Were comments excluded from that analysis?
According to the analysis that you referenced:
> JPlag parses Python source into syntactic tokens (function definitions, assignments, control flow, etc.), discarding all variable names, comments, whitespace, and formatting